Entry № 4993 · Hebrew origin

Jordan Jordan — Meaning, Origin & Baby Name Popularity

/ JOR-dan /
Gender
Girl
Origin
Hebrew
Meaning
"To descend / flow down (Jordan River; unisex top-200 name)"
Syllables
2
First recorded
Ancient (Hebrew)

A name that means "to descend / flow down (jordan river; unisex top-200 name)".

Jordan is from the Hebrew Yardēn — to descend, to flow down — referring to the Jordan River, the most-important river in biblical geography. The country Jordan — Hashemite Kingdom in the Middle East; population 11 million; capital Amman; Queen Rania of Jordan (born 1970) is one of the world's most-photographed and most-influential queens. Jordan Hinson — American actress.

To descend / flow down.

The name in its native script.

Jordan
Transliteration
Jordan
Pronunciation
/ ˈdʒɔːr.dən /
Root
Grammatical form

Where Jordan stands.

Jordan does not currently appear in the US Social Security Administration's top 1,000 girls' names, so we don't publish a US rank or birth count for it. That says nothing about the name's standing elsewhere in the world — only that it sits outside the ranked US data we rely on.

Jordans before her.

Real people
Jordan Brewster
American actress.
born 1980
Queen Rania of Jordan
Queen of Jordan.
born 1970
In fiction
Jordan
Biblical river.

Names connected to Jordan.

The number behind Jordan.

8

The Visionary

In Pythagorean numerology the letters of Jordan reduce to 8, The Visionary. This is a traditional interpretive system, not a factual claim about the name.